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Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Montreal Centre-Ville
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155 Blvd Rene-Levesque EastMontréal, QC H2X 3Z8
(514) 448-7100
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- Free
8 reviews for Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Montreal Centre-Ville
8 reviews in English
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Review from Moira R.
4/3/2011
This is an excellent alternative hotel to book for a convention.
The room was large with a kitchenette. We booked a room with two double beds and a couch. It was nice to have the separate living room area since we had multiple people staying in the room. The kitchenette doesn't have a stove, but it was otherwise well equipped and convenient. The housekeeping service did a good job as well. The internet was free, but did not work that well in our room.
The breakfast was a surprisingly good. They had both hot items like eggs, sausage and make your own crepes and the other standard items you would expect like bagels, toast, fruits, yogurt, coffee and tea.
The staff was helpful and gave us good recommendations for places to eat, and gave good directions.
I would definitely recommend staying here.Listed in: Montreal, QC
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Review from Kevin M.
4/1/2012 1 Check-in Here
I've only used the conference room facilities at this location and I have to say it's not that impressive. The rooms are stuffy and humid, and it seems over all hard to properly control the temperature.
Coffee that is being offered during conferences is pretty bad too.
I can't say much about the hotel rooms. -
Review from Allison M.
11/22/2011
Crucial info: The Days Inn the next block over has a bar. This one doesn't.
That aside, the relatively inexpensive and massive suites easily and comfortably sleep four people (for no additional charge!) with the pullout sofa. Our showerhead dripped, and the televisions are the old-fashioned tube variety, but the beds were comfortable enough. Oh, and there was weirdly one day when they didn't come to clean.
The free continental breakfast was exciting every day though, with fresh cinnamon rolls, apples and bananas, English muffins, bagel, bread, oatmeal, four varieties of cereal, a pancake-making conveyer belt, yogurt, hard-boiled eggs, bacon or sausage, plus some egg dish (scrambled or omelettes--beware that they may have meat though!).
Free wifi in the rooms, a fitness facility we didn't get a chance to check out. We were there for a convention at the Palais de Congres, and the walk was easy and quick.
The 747 bus takes you to and from the airport, but make sure you're paying attention to the stops, or you may end up at the terminus in the dark of night, sad and alone in Montreal. In other news, a cab will cost $38.
Oh, and there's no room service. You do have to venture from your bed to be fed. -
Review from Ana W.
7/30/2010
It's no fancy place, but it is inexpensive, convenient and clean!
I stayed here just over the weekend with my dragon boat team for a festival and we had a blast. The front desk was nice enough to put most of our team (20+ people) on the same floor. It made meetings and morning calls much easier.
I loved my room. We got a double with an office in it's own room, almost as if it was meant to be a bedroom in itself with a couch in it. I found out later that the couch was in fact a sofa bed. So sweet! Everyone got their own bed! Surprise surprise, there was an extra TV in the 'office'.
As the previous post had mentioned, the internet in your room is not wireless, but you can easily plug in travel sized wireless router and you are set.
There aren't much utensils for you in the kitchenette, so just expect your basic, fork, spoon, butter knife. There is a water kettle and coffee maker. Full size fridge and freezer. It's clean!
Breakfast, they have a pretty good selection, muffins, bagels, toast, cereal, sausage, eggs, juice, tea, coffee... I had to leave the hotel before they brought out everything for breakfast, so I didn't take advantage of it. There is always next time.
One thing I did find irritating was parking. I missed the turn into the side street to leave my car for valet. I had to loop around through street closures and construction. Thank goodness for valet. I don't know where my car would be without them.
Location of the hotel is pretty good. You are about a block away from Chinatown. Couple of blocks from Old Montreal. Two blocks away from the subway station. You can even walk to the clubs along Saint Lauren... if you get tired afterwards, you can cab back for less than $10 with tips. There is an IGA very close by, in the Desjardin Complex. So if you don't feel like eating out, you can always pick up food and wine at the grocery, I think it was only 4 blocks away.
Front desk was very nice. English friendly! Who ever said people from Montreal were rude? I'd definitely come back next time I'm in town, especially with my family or in a group. 3.5 stars. -
Review from Rachelle T.
9/21/2010
Rooms: Larger than normal Holiday Inn Express rooms, complete with a kitchenette, sitting area and separate bedroom area. Much like a suite-room, the kitchenette is perfect for someone who is staying a few days, with a full sized fridge. Rooms were clean, but the bathroom sink area was a little small for two. Shower heads were CRAZY! Mine sprayed a wide area, causing the floor outside of the tub to get wet! Desk has a wired connection for free internet.
Front Desk: Not as friendly as other locations but was able to service me fine.
Concierge: I must have asked them over a dozen questions about the local area, including places to eat and how far is this place from that place. They commit to any restaurants by name, but did tell me a good area to start looking at. Combined with Yelp, I was able to find some good places. Funny enough, the Front Desk deferred all questions regarding the area to the Concierge, which was 10 feet away. Guess they don' want to step on each other's toes. They offered free maps geared towards tourists, which was SUPER helpful!
Breakfast: Typical, standard. Too bad they close it on time, right away. Unlike Hampton Inn, they don't leave coffee available all day. Lots of seating.
Location: I thought this location was "downtown" but with any location like that, you never know what you're going to get. This location is about 2 blocks from Chinatown and is close to 2 different lines of the Metro. The hotel is close to the Saint-Laurent stop on the green line, but is a sketchy walk through an area similar to the Tenderloin in San Francisco, minus a lot of people hanging around begging for money. Many stores were boarded up and covered with pictures or concert ads. The other stop it is close to is the Champ-de-Mars on the orange line. They both equal distance from the hotel, but the walk is nicer and seemly safer to the Champ-de-Mars location. Don't be scared of the Metro either. It was very easy to get around and VERY fast. Definitely stay at a hotel close to a Metro station. The walk to Old Montreal was about 15 minutes and closer than it looked on the map.
Weird: This location shares the same building as Candlewood Suites. Hmm how is that possible you might ask? Apparently, Holiday Inn Express uses floors 2-8, while the rest of the upper floors are occupied by Candlewood. Two different entrances on the same side of the building, yet elevators are used differently. Weird right? I am not sure how I feel about that. The hotel above us was a lot cheaper. In some ways, I wonder if I was bamboozled? My only comfort is that the Holiday Inn Express got better reviews on Yelp.
If you've never stayed in Montreal before, I would consider staying in Old Montreal (old school/touristy) or closer to Peel street of Downtown (bars/restaurants/shopping). I think those areas tend to be pricier, so if you have a budget this location will be just fine. I would probably not feel the comfortable staying here by myself though, knowing the area I might have to walk through at night. -
Review from Tim H.
9/10/2011
Nice place. Clean, great location. Can walk easily to Old Montreal. Right on the 747 bus route to the airport. Friendly staff, but sign for no pool. But hey, that's not the most fun you can have in Montreal. You can walk to anything from this location and they have great room rates.
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Review from Amara M.
10/10/2010
I was a little disappointed when Hotwire returned the Holiday Inn Express for my trip to Montreal. But once we got there, we were more than pleasantly surprised.
The room: Huge, clean suite. Large, eat-in kitchenette - minus a stove. We had a living room, large bedroom, and nice bathroom. Two TVs. Not fancy- it is a Holiday Inn Express afterall...
Freebies: Warm breakfast (eggs, sausage or bacon, yogurt, assorted breads cereal), Internet (not wifi, and not terribly fast)
Location: Awesome. We walked everywhere from here very easily - Chinatown, Old Montreal, Latin Quarter, Mile End, etc. The area itself wasn't particularly hopping, but it's safe and close to the action.
Parking - $18/night valet...a bit more that i wanted to pay, but not exorbitant.
All in all for $109 a night a great deal and a relaxing crash pad to enjoy the city from. -
Review from Evilyn T.
1/30/2010
We stayed here in May 2009, and we are going back to Montreal this May, but are staying somewhere less expensive with a bigger kitchenette in the same area.
There were four of us who had booked a room for a music festival we flew to Montreal to see, and we all showed up with our laptops so we can stay in touch back home (cuz what is a vacation without work?) However "Complimentary High Speed internet" does not mean high speed wi-fi, so we had to take turns plugging our laptops in or dragging our shit into the lobby, which was the one place where the wi-fi actually worked (even though it was super slow, high-speed my ass!) The "Fitness Centre" consisted of a treadmill, a bike and some weights, which looked as though they had all been purchased in the 70's, and since the room had no windows you could open, it got really stuffy, really fast.
I think my favourite part of our week-long stay though was the housekeeping. Now, I don't mean to blame the housekeepers, but since the hotel had given out discounts for all the out-of-town people who were staying there for festival, you would think they would not wake us up at the ungodly hour of 8am, especially since the festival went until 3am, not to mention any afterparties... In any case, we went to the front desk to see about getting a "do not disturb sign" and they told us they didn't have any. So we decided to draw a picture of us sleeping and turn it into a home-made sign. Magically, a "do not disturb" sign appeared on our door handle the next morning! Hallelujah! We were safe to sleep in for the rest of the trip!
The hotel did offer a complimentary breakfast, if you were able to drag your hungover ass down to the lobby before 10am, and honestly free doesn't always = good. Only two of the four of us were able to swallow our liquid dinners long enough to run downstairs, fill up a plate, throw it in the fridge and run back to bed, but most of the time it wasn't really worth it, unless you wanted to try and strike up a conversation with some of the other zombies who were staying for the festival too. I should have just stashed some cereal or granola bars in the hotel room.
I will give the hotel props for storing our luggage on our checkout day since our flight was in the afternoon and not in the morning, I really did appreciate that. I guess the reason I am only giving this three stars is because it was pretty pricey, even split four ways, and as someone who has travelled a lot, I have experienced better.
